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Fitz-James and Ellen

From “The Lady of the Lake,” Canto VI.
A FOOTSTEP struck her ear,
And Snowdoun’s graceful Knight was near. …

Sir Walter Scott
Muckle-Mou’d Meg

“oh, wha hae ye brought us hame now, my brave lord,
Strappit naught ower his braid saddle-bow?
Some bauld Border reiver to feast at our board …

James Ballantine
The Heart of the Bruce

It was upon an April morn,
While yet the frost lay hoar,
We heard Lord James’s bugle-horn …

William Edmondstoune Aytoun
Barclay of Ury

Up the streets of Aberdeen,
By the kirk and college green,
Rode the laird of Ury; …

John Greenleaf Whittier
The Fight of the “Armstrong” Privateer

TELL the story to your sons
Of the gallant days of yore,
When the brig of seven guns …

James Jeffrey Roche
Drifted out to Sea

Two little ones, grown tired of play,
Roamed by the sea, one summer day,
Watching the great waves come and go, …

Rose Hartwick Thorpe
The Turk in Armenia

From “The Purple East”
WHAT profits it, O England, to prevail
In camp and mart and council, and bestrew …

William Watson
Ave Imperatrix

Set in this stormy Northern sea,
Queen of these restless fields of tide,
England! what shall men say of thee, …

Oscar Wilde
Hands all Round

FIRST drink a health, this solemn night,
A health to England, every guest:
That man ’s the best cosmopolite …

Alfred, Lord Tennyson
England and Her Colonies

She stands, a thousand-wintered tree,
By countless morns impearled;
Her broad roots coil beneath the sea, …

William Watson
Scotland

From “The Lay of the Last Minstrel,” Canto VI.
O CALEDONIA! stern and wild,
Meet nurse for a poetic child! …

Sir Walter Scott
The Bard

A Pindaric Ode
I.
“RUIN seize thee, ruthless King! …

Thomas Gray
“My heart ’s in the Highlands”

My heart ’s in the Highlands, my heart is not here;
My heart ’s in the Highlands a-chasing the deer;
Chasing the wild deer, and following the roe. …

Robert Burns
Heather Ale: A Galloway Legend

From the bonny bells of heather
They brewed a drink long-syne,
Was sweeter far than honey, …

Robert Louis Stevenson
The Execution of Montrose

[James Graham, Marquis of Montrose, was executed in Edinburgh, May 21, 1650, for an attempt to overthrow the Commonwealth and restore Charles II.]
COME hither, Evan Cameron!
Come, stand behind my knee— …

William Edmondstoune Aytoun
Border Ballad

March, march, Ettrick and Teviotdale!
Why the de’il dinna ye march forward in order?
March, march, Eskdale and Liddesdale! …

Sir Walter Scott
The Exile’s Song

Oh! why left I my hame?
Why did I cross the deep?
Oh! why left I the land …

Robert Gilfillan
The Irishman

The Savage loves his native shore,
Though rude the soil and chill the air;
Then well may Erin’s sons adore …

James Orr
Turlough MacSweeney

A health to you, Piper,
And your pipes silver-tongued, clear and sweet in their crooning!
Full of the music they gathered at morn …

Anna MacManus
A Spinning Song

MY love to fight the Saxon goes,
And bravely shines his sword of steel;
A heron’s feather decks his brows, …

John Francis O’Donnell